Glove



Nov. 18, 1941. o. J. BJERKE ETAL GLOVE Filed Aug. 24, 1940 ATTORNEY.

:Patented Nov. 18, 1941 GLOVE Oliver J. Bjerke and Charles S.-Olson,

Duluth Application August 24, 1940, Serial No. 354,042

5 Claims.

This invention relates to gloves and has special reference to a novel form of glove provided with window openings or eyelets adjacent the ends of the fingers thereof for the purpose of exposing portions of the nails of they fingers of a wearer,

and to the method of making such gloves.

The present invention is a continuation-inpecially when such openings are reinforced by stitching such as that known as eyelet stitching or the like, and therefore another object of the invention is to provide a simple, practical and satisfactory method of making such gloves.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description thereof.

Referring now to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this application, and wherein like reference characters indicate like parts:

Figure l is a plan view of the back of a finished ladys glove having a desired form of opening or window adjacent the end of each finger.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the palm of the glove turned inside out as it appears before the final step in finishing same is accomplished.

There are of course several types of gloves on themarket and it will be understood that the construction of one type of glove may differ somewhat from that of another type, and, in fact, the construction of the different fingers of a glove may differ somewhat; for example, the construction of the thumb is usually accomplished by the union of but two terminal portions of the material of which the glove is made, whereas the other fingers of the glove may have three or four different terminal portions united in order to complete them. However, the steps of the method of forming the gloves are intended to broadly cover such minor differentiations as occur in the different types of gloves.

As will be apparent from Figure 1 of the drawing, there is represented an ordinary glove, which may be of any desired opaque material such as commonly used, and in this instance the glove is provided with suitable windows or openings 4 positioned in the back portion of the upper end of each finger of the glove and spaced some considerable distance from the terminal thereof, and the diameter of which is less than the width of the back of the finger in which it is formed, so that there is a margin of the material forming the back of the finger left entirely around the opening, for reasons which will hereinafter appear. The openings are relatively small, at least of a size to normally avoid the possibility of the end of a fingernail protruding therethrough, as this is well known to be very objectionable in the majority of cases, and this constitutes another object in forming the window or opening spaced from the free end of each finger of the glove, and furthermore the size of the opening is such as to expose only a portion of a fingernail visible therethrough.

The manufacture of such gloves-has been very difiicult because of the scarcity of material left about the opening for the clamping foot of an eyelet machine to hold while the reinforcing stitching about the edge of the hole is being applied.

To accomplish this result and to provide material for the eyelet machine to work with, as

illustrated in Figure 2 of the drawing, the glove, of whatever material it is composed, is but partially finished, that is the terminal of the face member I of each finger of the glove is left unstitched, while one or more of the other terminals, for example as shown at 2, are completely stitched about the back member 3 of each finger. Obviously there are no such additional members in the construction of the thumb of the glove, it being formed of a single piece of material folded over and stitched along the meeting edges, and the terminal portion of the thumb is left unstitched in extent similar to that of the fingers of the glove.

By stitching the sides of the fingers of the glove to the back thereof there is provided ample area of material at the sides of the back of the glove finger for the clamping foot of an eyelet machine to hold the back of the glove finger firmly in place while both the cutting and eyelet stitching operations are performed, after which the ultimate stitching of the fingers is completed; it being understood of course that this stitching and eyelet forming operation is done while the gloves are inside out and in the ordinary way.

When the openings 4 are to be formed in gloves made of fine delicate material, it is found that a piece of tissue paper or other like material when placed under the glove finger when placed in the eyelet machine, provides additiona1 stock for the machine to grip and a much firmer and better appearing stitching about the eyelet opening.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. The method of forming gloves having eyelets in the backs of the tips of the fingers thereof, comprising the steps of partially completing the stitching of the face of the fingers to the sides thereof, forming an eyelet in the back of each finger adjacent the tip thereof, and completing the stitching of the face of the fingers to the sides thereof.

2. The method of forming gloves having eyelets in the backs of the tips of the fingers thereof, which includes the steps of stitching the sides of the fingers to the-backs thereof, partially stitching the face of the fingers to said sides, forming an eyelet adjacent the ends of the back of each finger, and completing the stitching of the face of the fingers to the sides thereof.

3. A method of forming gloves having eyelets in the backs of the tips of the fingers thereof, which includes the steps of stitching the sides of the fingers to the backs thereof, partially stitching the face of the fingers to said sides placing reinforcing material under the back of each fin ger, forming an eyelet adjacent the ends of the back of each finger and said reinforcing material thereunder, and completing the stitching of the face of the fingers of the sides thereof.

4. The method of forming gloves having eyelets in the backs of the tips of the fingers thereof which includes the successive steps of partially completing the stitching of the fingers of said gloves, forming an eyelet in the back of each finger, and completing the stitching of said fingers.

5. The method of forming gloves having eyelets in the backs of the fingers thereof, which includes the successive steps of partially completing the stitching of said gloves, forming an eyelet in the back of each finger, and completing the stitching of said gloves.

OLIVER J. BJERKE. CHARLES S. OLSON 

